Work & commute · Cowpens

Work & commute in Cowpens, SC

Most working residents leave Cowpens for work: only 2% work in town. The top destinations are Spartanburg (18%), Southern Shops (3%) and Gaffney (3%). Half commute less than 11 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

16 of 808 working residents

Typical commute

11 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

24 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 792 Cowpens residents head out of town to work, 16 work right here, and 220 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Cowpens.

792live here, work elsewhere

16live and work here

220work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Cowpens goes to work

Spartanburg8.5 mi away

18%144

Southern Shops10.9 mi away

3%25

Gaffney8.9 mi away

3%24

Columbia85 mi away

3%21

Greenville34.1 mi away

2%19

Clifton2.3 mi away

2%17

Cowpens (in town)right here

2%16

Hilltop9.2 mi away

1%12

Greer24.8 mi away

1%10

Drayton6.3 mi away

1%10

Everywhere elseother towns and states

63%510

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Cowpens commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

45%

23%

14%

17%

45%Under 10 mi

23%10–24 mi

14%25–50 mi

17%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Cowpens is a commuter town

0.29jobs per working resident

A commuter town

0.29 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.

The jobs

What the jobs in Cowpens are

236 jobs are based in Cowpens. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Cowpens’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Cowpens

236 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)33%

Trade, transport & utilities32%

Services (health, schools, offices…)35%

$1,250 a month or less24%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month44%

Jobs Cowpens residents hold

808 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)24%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)54%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month32%

Over $3,333 a month50%

+30%

Jobs based in Cowpens, 2013 → 2023: 182 → 236. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.